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Grey cloak, pink hat, slender figure… I'll look into this!

Back already? Take these! Not a word!

What a fright!

He's in the room!

She's in there!

Surely my eyes deceive me, it was not she!

But of course! And yet, if my eyes are in error, my nose is not! There's an odor, by Jove, of tobacco!

Yes, I know this awful, loathsome, detestable smell too well.

Who dares to smoke in my house? I? But do I smoke? I don't!

She?! But does she smoke? She doesn't!

All the same, the odor is here, alas!

Oh, what dire thoughts crowd my mind like a nightmare! They grow and grow and become monsters!

A seducer! A smoker! God! What a horror!

Yet prudence and caution shall help me to solve this dreadful dilemma.

More than one wretched husband has sealed his fate just because he was too afraid, alas, and assumed the worst.

Hey! Sante! Tell me the truth, now. You smoke.

Then, perhaps, the Countess smokes?

Well then, what is the source of this odor?